US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Method for PDCCH buffer management" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,645, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method for PDCCH buffer management" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches are described that enhance the reliability of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) detection where the PDCCH can be transmitted repeatedly with different beams. The approaches use soft combining where the user eq...